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Newspaper
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Location
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1890
Page
13
A fashion column surveys dress trends for mothers and babies, noting navy gowns with brick red trims, plumage on hats provoking cruelty concerns, and a Worth walking dress in suede gray with velvet bands. It also shares a California mother’s request for dress alteration hints.
The writer advises a young mother on selecting a dress suitable for a first visit home with a baby. Emphasis on a very black silk gown with white lace details, avoiding plain plain bodices, and favoring a French waist with trim skirt. Recommends pinking up with velvet ribbons and careful skirt pleats, noting fit and proportion for a short slender figure.
The piece contrasts a box plaited skirt and short jacket with a silk blouse waist, noting the blazer dress as out of style on Sixth Avenue while English racegoers and Cowes audiences favor it. It mentions a white serge yacht dress with pink silk skirt as a stylish example for a young lady.
A long discourse on juvenile fashion compares outfits for a well bred young girl and baby. It weighs fabrics like brown Holland linen and blue shirts against silk gowns and velvet trims, offering guidance on head wear, cloaks, stockings, and light embroidery for infant and maternal attire.
Washington society wives share recipes and culinary tips in a compilation of statesmen’s dishes. Mrs Harrison, Mrs Reed, and many others publish favored soups, roasts, breads, and desserts, with notes on baking, candied fruit, and cocktails, highlighting the link between high society, politics, and kitchen skill.
A historical notice warns that light beers are achieved via malt substitutes like glucose, risking weaker flavor. It discusses bottling with antiseptics, use of alkaline bicarbonates to boost head, and potential use of unsafe bitters when hops are scarce, noting such drastic adulteration would risk sales.
A Detroit Free Press theory suggests many bachelors are bald headed to explain fewer weddings. The text humorously claims hairlessness harms wooing, noting capillary attraction in love and that flies on the forehead may ruin romance as a suitor pours out his language.
The Louisville Post reports that Henry Watterson showed early promise as a pianist and was nearly sent to a European piano school. An accident to his thumb redirected his talents toward journalism and public life, where he began as a musical and dramatic critic for the Cincinnati Commercial and earned the regard of Murat Halstead.
An ex employee recalls A. T. Stewart enforcing store rules with an abrupt dismissal. Upon asking a clerk for a match, the man complied and was told to go to the desk to receive what was due him before Stewart departed in his carriage.
The St Louis Globe Democrat questions census counts claiming 3,000,000 people have been missed and argues at least that many would never be missed under any aim. The piece reflects wartime era rhetoric and concerns over population tallies.
A dispatch from New York outlines upcoming winter dinner party trends with new decorations, dainty dishes like Manger Suisse, and artful serving styles. It also contrasts elegant wine etiquette, warns against overindulgence, and muses on women’s marriage prospects and old maidism with social satire.
In a metropolitan theater a beautiful actress charms crowds with stage jewellery notions. The jeweler questions the gems while she boasts a $100,000 value, exposing a contrast between public illusion and private earnings. The piece threads warnings about seduction and a note on strychnia use in the city. The essay closes with Diana Belle’s final image and a cautionary tone.
The camanba palm yields edible bulb powder used as food and medicine from rootlets with strong cathartic properties. The trunk produces marrow-like food for cattle when young, later hard and usable for building. Branches supply fences and shading exudate wax for candles, while fibers make hats mats and rope. The fruit is sweet and palatable and seeds ground as coffee substitute.
A harum scarum salon of domestic advice and playful chatter on sweeping. Lois and Marjorie weigh practical exercise versus tennis as the girls praise broomwork. Ammonia in water refreshes colors, tea leaves ease cleaning, and dampening aids dust removal.
A D Dispatch column critiques the Marching Through Georgian Club as it roams the sidewalk outside its three story building. The piece mocks late night debates, tobacco odors, and obstructed sidewalks while praising the club’s public presence and its impact on the alley. The writer coins the Philosopher and Rhymster as vocal observers of the rowdy scene.
Four boys raced in Sheepshead Bay with a flying start. A red haired youngster led and reached the float first, but the referee denied him the prize claiming unfair advantage after spectators noted his flesh colored rubber suit. The outcome hinges on the referee's ruling and the disqualification of the leading swimmer.
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